What causes smokers cough?
The irritants in smoke provoke the protective mechanisms of the air passages and lungs (celia); this causes coughing. It is actually a healthy reaction – coughing is the body’s way of discharging foreign or unhealthy matter. If a smoker has coughed all along, when he quits the coughing stops amazingly quickly. However, if he did not cough much, when he quits his coughing increases for a while to rid his body of the accumulated “black gunk.
The irritants in smoke provoke the protective mechanisms of the air passages and lungs (celia); this causes coughing. It is actually a healthy reaction – coughing is the body’s way of discharging foreign or unhealthy matter. If a smoker has coughed all along, when he quits the coughing stops amazingly quickly.
